# Peter Watts

Below you'll find short reviews of Peter Watts's books:

## Firefall
- [_Blindsight_](/books/blindsight/) by Peter Watts --- ★★★★★: Blindsight is a hard sci-fi novel about first contact with aliens in the near future. A crew of four transhumans and a vampire are sent on a spaceship to investigate an anomaly in the solar system after a swarm of alien probes scan Earth.
- [_The Colonel_](/books/the_colonel/) by Peter Watts --- ★★★★★: The Colonel is a short story that serves as a bridge between Blindsight and Echopraxia. It follows Colonel Keaton—the father of Siri Keaton—as he investigates whether the Bicameral hivemind poses a threat to baseline humans.
- [_Echopraxia_](/books/echopraxia/) by Peter Watts --- ★★★★★: Echopraxia, by Peter Watts, is the second book in the Firefall series, unfolding at roughly the same time as Blindsight. It follows parasitologist Daniel Brüks, who gets unwillingly dragged into a conflict between multiple transhuman factions, travels to the Icarus station orbiting the sun, and eventually back to Earth.